ngia Wood height 36 1/2in (92.6cm) Provenance Lillian and Robert Bohlen Collection, Detroit James Stephenson Tribal Art, New York Franklin Family Collection, Portland, Oregon Klaus-Jochen Krüger notes, "Women are not usually entitled to a sculpture representing them, because they do not hunt. When there is a pole on a woman's tomb, it is there because a feast of merit has been given in her honor by hunters. . . When hunters wish to heighten the influence of an eminent female personality in the hereafter, they can transfer their feasts to her, and this may account for the presence of carved poles on certain women's tombs." (Tribal Arts #22, Winter/Spring 1999/2000, p. 95). Of hard, dense wood, the figure standing on the left leg, as the right has old loss from the knee downwards; the rounded torso with conical breast, arms now lost; a cylindrical neck supports the spherical head carved with sensitive features; the patina with ancient natural erosion throughout with semi-glossy patina.